In relation to the growing idea that a player should return his value in points:

Last weekend 266 players featured in the Premier League, of which 57 outscored their value - that's 21 per cent.

Also,

The Fantasist's own team (1,232nd out of about 250,000 overall)

"250,000 overall"? Finally, after years of guessing - and guessing closer to 400,000 - we have an idea about how big the game actually is. Now, if only we had a sense of how many teams were still active at this point in the season...